A Mother’s Unanswered Prayers

Had I been Joseph’s mother
I’d have prayed
protection from his brothers:
“God, keep him safe;
he is so young,
so different from
the others.”
Mercifully she never knew
there would be slavery
and prison, too.

Had I been Moses’ mother
I’d have wept
to keep my little son;
praying she might forget
the babe drawn from the water
of the Nile,
had I not kept
him for her
nursing him the while?
Was he not mine
and she
but Pharaoh’s daughter?

Had I been Daniel’s mother
I should have pled
“Give victory!
This Babylonian horde—
godless and cruel—
don’t let them take him captive
—better dead,
Almighty Lord!”

Had I been Mary—
Oh, had I been she,
I would have cried
as never a mother cried,
“… Anything, O God,
anything …
but crucified!”

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As Mother of Three Very Precious Sons and Watching all 3 of them go through their own personal Life trials I know What the Verse is to ” Lay my Isaac Down” You have to Let Go and Let God in His Wisdom do His will in his time and lead those Children.